Why are cheat tables now flagged as malware when downloading?

Someone

Cheater

Basically what is says in the title. Recently whenever I've been trying to download any cheat table, it is being flagged as malware when downloaded by Google and Firefox. When I first saw it I was confused and thought that it may be the case this one time but after I opened the file and scanned it via Kaspersky it showed that it did not have any malware or virus. What is going on?

TheyCallMeTim13

Enchanter

Chrome even flagged an empty text file as "dangerous", what a joke. I reported the issue to google.

If you click the "Show All", there is still a "keep download" option. But they removed it from the download's options. And they removed the option to disable the feature, so it might be time to find a better browser.

SunBeam

Administrator

..which brings me yet again to the all-time question: why the fuck do you update or upgrade your browsers, Windows OS, etc.? Spare me with the "cuz of security" bullshit. No one cares about your PC to hack you, infect you and so on. Ah.. that you're auto-doing it by not discerning WTF you download, run or install, that's a different story.. And for that you got anti-viruses; no need to update anything useless from M$ (pfft, Windows Defender..)

P.S.: If the update does indeed bring something good, a feature that you can use, sure thing, by all means. Else.. you do it just to psychologically sleep better at night? Dafuq..

GreenHouse

Expert Cheater

..which brings me yet again to the all-time question: why the fuck do you update or upgrade your browsers, Windows OS, etc.? Spare me with the "cuz of security" bullshit. No one cares about your PC to hack you, infect you and so on. Ah.. that you're auto-doing it by not discerning WTF you download, run or install, that's a different story.. And for that you got anti-viruses; no need to update anything useless from M$ (pfft, Windows Defender..)

P.S.: If the update does indeed bring something good, a feature that you can use, sure thing, by all means. Else.. you do it just to psychologically sleep better at night? Dafuq..

I would say that companies like updating, changing and adding stuff so people think that they're actually working on something. 1 month, 5 updates, 1 meaningful change. It's like: Look, we're working on getting you a better experience and more security. Praise us!

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predprey

Expert Cheater

..which brings me yet again to the all-time question: why the fuck do you update or upgrade your browsers, Windows OS, etc.? Spare me with the "cuz of security" bullshit. No one cares about your PC to hack you, infect you and so on. Ah.. that you're auto-doing it by not discerning WTF you download, run or install, that's a different story.. And for that you got anti-viruses; no need to update anything useless from M$ (pfft, Windows Defender..)

P.S.: If the update does indeed bring something good, a feature that you can use, sure thing, by all means. Else.. you do it just to psychologically sleep better at night? Dafuq..

because they are slowly taking away your ability to delay or pause updates. chrome? auto-update checked. windows? auto-update and option to only delay up to a few months. if you're still on windows 10 1803? end of support and forced auto-update pushed onto you. if any one still values control over their desktop we have to migrate over to linux where the ecosystem is much worse for gamers than windows. faith in humanity slowly bleeding away...... h34r:

TheyCallMeTim13

Enchanter

..which brings me yet again to the all-time question: why the fuck do you update or upgrade your browsers, Windows OS, etc.? Spare me with the "cuz of security" bullshit. No one cares about your PC to hack you, infect you and so on. Ah.. that you're auto-doing it by not discerning WTF you download, run or install, that's a different story.. And for that you got anti-viruses; no need to update anything useless from M$ (pfft, Windows Defender..)

P.S.: If the update does indeed bring something good, a feature that you can use, sure thing, by all means. Else.. you do it just to psychologically sleep better at night? Dafuq..

Seems to be something on google's end, I haven't updated it. Seen a lot of webmasters saying the same thing, seems to be related to the url more than anything. My guess is something was found with a crawler and it takes some time to clear even if it was removed. We might need to go through the trainer section and double check some stuff.

predprey said:

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because they are slowly taking away your ability to delay or pause updates. chrome? auto-update checked. windows? auto-update and option to only delay up to a few months. if you're still on windows 10 1803? end of support and forced auto-update pushed onto you. if any one still values control over their desktop we have to migrate over to linux where the ecosystem is much worse for gamers than windows. faith in humanity slowly bleeding away...... h34r:

Archerodees

Novice Cheater

Just wanted to chime in on this. Yep I was getting the same thing on Firefox, it always flagged them. Even on ones I've Dl'd before but I knew were fine. So I scanned the folder they were in and it came back negative. However.....using the actual table that Firefox flagged always gave the error, "Table failed to load, or failed to load Steam table" something like that. So Firefox was doing something to the table itself. Removing something, as only the tables Firefox DL'd and flagged did this.

So I tried MS Edge to download a table, and hey presto it worked. So if anyone is getting that error, use another browser.